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Texas man sentenced to 3 years in prison for kicking cat like 'a football field goal' on video (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not unusual for young kids to lack empathy, up to the point of tormenting and even killing animals.

The vast majority grow up, develop a degree of additional conscience and maturity, and don't go on to become cannibal serial killers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

That is not correct.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7246522/

Writing in 1964, Mead found that across a range of cultures, extraordinary abuse of animals (e.g., torture, killing) by children may precede more violent acts by that individual as an adult [48]. She argued that an act of cruelty towards an animal by a child could “prove a diagnostic sign, and that such children, diagnosed early, could be helped instead of being allowed to embark on a long career of episodic violence and murder (p. 22). Her writings influenced the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to add animal cruelty to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–III R (DSM-III R) in 1987. In the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) animal cruelty was retained as a symptom of conduct disorder [49,50].

Additional studies in the 60′s also documented the Link between violence towards animals in childhood and aggressive behavior towards humans in adulthood [51,52].